SOC 4333 - Social Stratification

Credits: 3 hrs

This course is designed to introduce students to the patterns, processes and dynamics of social stratification and inequality in the United States in particular and human societies in general. The course examines comparative stratification systems, dimensions of class and social mobility, poverty and public policy, ideology and the legitimation of inequality, public policy and the class system, ethnic differentiation and stratification, gender inequality, political inequality, global stratification and growing inequality in the United States. Prerequisite(s): SOC 2301 or SOC 2302.